Fall of 94, day 1 of English 15 in Sackett building, room full of freshmen (almost all guys) in engineering. Pretty young lady who is the instructor for class asks each of us why we chose PSU. Gentleman in from of me says "because of the football team baby, they are going to win the national championship" (proudly announced he was from Jersey too). The instructor quickly gave him the business declaring, "if you are serious, thats one of the dumbest reasons I've ever heard". She couldnt stand football.
After everyone told their reason, she basically said she knew engineers were poor writers and most of us could not think with enough imagination to be good writers. lol. She also told us how she was in to other chicks so we should not try anything funny with her.
Her personal beliefs definitely played out as the only three people who got higher than a B- in that section were the 3 chicks. I got a C, the guy from Jersey got a D. For one of his papers he told us he had someone else write it and even ran it by university tutors to see what they thought. She gave him a D+ on that paper and all his others were D- or D, we all knew it was because of that first interaction.
